Helen Chadwick: 'Wreaths To Pleasure'

This exhibition charts the creative and practical processes of 'Wreaths to Pleasure' (1992-3), a series of thirteen circular photographs mounted in coloured enamel frames.

Each image captures a sculptural composition formed of a heady mix of substances and materials, photographed from above. Delicate flowers are suspended in transient states, poised between life and death, in a variety of organic and toxic liquids ranging from tomato juice to Windolene.

Chadwick often referred to the 'Wreaths' as 'bad blooms', explosions of form and colour that are simultaneously seductive and repellent. These sculptural arrangements reference bodily forms, a concern Chadwick explored throughout her work.